pingpongboss/Blind.ly-Messenger — Issue #10: Slight annoyance with preferences text
Author: Gaffney
Created: 2011-12-02 06:11:30+00:00
State: open

Phone:

HTC EVO 3D

Description:

At first I didn't have a problem with the text swapping in the preferences, but now that I am using the preferences a lot I find that it is actually kind of confusing and slightly annoying. When I (and most people, I would wager) see a description under a title, I naturally associate the description with the title. That said, the descriptions in your app are associated with the current selection, which is all the way to the right of the button. Although I definitely think the text switching is "cool", I think it is more practical and more user-friendly to have static text that describes what the preference does. (I.e. "Text-to-speech: Allow actions to be spoken --> Allows actions to be spoken"; it's either on (allows) or off (doesn't allow).)

Replication:

-- Preferences
-- Turn on/off a preference; reference is to text under white preference title

Severity:

Low. Matter of preference, but I think most people would agree.